I've got the innards from a 1951 Philco, the one that sat outside all winter under a snowbank until I found it in the spring outside the building next door to my office. It's not high-end (10" speaker, SE amp) but the electronics and changer were pretty well preserved by the cabinet as it gradually came unglued. So I took a chance and plugged it in. Yup, sound, but weak, and that filter cap can started getting warm, so I know what it needs. Then summer came and I got distracted by summer things.
But last spring I cut the filter cap can off and pulled the insides out, ready for restuffing. Bought the caps. Waited for fall. Fall arrived, but wouldn't you know, the can top that I cut off has gone AWOL. I've looked everywhere in the shop, behind & under everything. @#&*%$!!!! I think I'll find some plastic pipe in the same ID and use that as a temporary form.
But tonight I was out in the shop, varnishing a mahogany table top from the sailboat, and I moved the dustpan to its spot under the table saw, and... oops, the Philco speaker is there. I poked a small hole in the cone. Quite small, but still. I hate doing dumb things.
Chris Campbell